02-20: Fall at Cape May with David La Puma

The American Birding Podcast

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Science, Birding, Hobbies, Travel, Birdwatching, Leisure, Aba, Ornithology, Nature, Birds

4.7 • 632 Ratings

🗓️ 4 October 2018

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

Few birders would dispute that Cape May, New Jersey, is among the continent’s most storied birding locations, both in terms of birding spectacle and influence on North American birding culture. It feels like Cape May Bird Observatory, New Jersey Audubon’s center for bird research and education, has always been at the center of it all. CMBO has been doing research and outreach about birds and especially bird migration since 1975, and Dr. David La Puma is the current director. He and the New Jersey Audubon crew are hosting the Cape May Fall Festival later this month and he joins host Nate Swick to talk about that, as well as fallouts, next-generation bird research, and what it's like to be the steward of all that history.

Also, Nate shares some thoughts on his recent trip to Cuba, thinks about the USFWS's recently released Outdoor Recreation Survey, and catches up on all the rare bird news for the last 4 weeks.

Come join us at the Lower Rio Grande Valley Birding Festival this November!

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0:00.0	Birders join the ABA and hundreds of friends at the Lower Rio Grande Valley Birding Festival
0:05.3	in Harlingen, Texas, beginning November 7, 2018.
0:08.8	Come birds, South Texas and see some of those amazing species that just sneak across the border
0:13.7	into Texas, plain Chachalaka, clay-colored thrush, tropical perula, and more.
0:18.7	The birding is great, the festival is so much fun.
0:21.2	There are some great speakers lined up. Get more information and register at RGVBF.org.
0:32.2	Hello and welcome to the American Birding Podcast from the American Birding Association. I'm your host, Nate Swick.
0:38.3	It feels like I haven't done this in a while.
0:41.3	I recorded the last couple episodes prior to my trip to Cuba with the ABA.
0:46.3	I am back now.
0:48.3	I'm happy to report that my predictions last time were more or less accurate.
0:52.3	I'll be sharing some more thoughts on all that at the end of
0:54.5	the episode, so stay tuned for that. In the meantime, I came across an interesting piece of news,
1:00.7	this from Cornell, but it was their report of the latest edition of the National Survey of
1:05.7	Outdoor Recreation. A couple caveats, this is from 2016. It takes a couple years for the economists to crunch the numbers, so that's why it's 2016 and not 2018. But burning does seem to be growing as a recreational activity. These numbers are probably a nice baseline at minimum. So take it as that. Second caveat, this is for the U.S., but my hunch is that the trends for Canada
1:29.4	are similar, maybe 10% of what the numbers are for the U.S. That seems to be the case for
1:34.1	Canadian things. Canada's population is about 10% of the U.S. is the ABA members in Canada,
1:39.0	about 10% of the ABA members in the U.S. Everything sort of shakes out nicely like that.
1:44.1	So while the numbers are not
1:45.0	specifically relevant to our Canadian listeners, members, friends, as I said, I think the trends are
1:51.4	relevant. Anyway, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service says that there are 45 million burders. This is a number
1:59.0	that we have argued about for years. What is a burder anyway and all
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